{"product_id":"9781803093741","title":"The Twilight of Politics by Mario Tronti","description":"A classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left.    ? Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of Workers and Capital, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian operaismo or workerism, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionized the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In The Twilight of Politics, written originally in 1998, Tronti argues that modern politics, which reached its apogee in the twentieth century, has ended.    ? Realism and Utopia, Tronti explains, were the foundational qualities of modern politics, which it always tried to clasp together. But behind this highwater mark of politics was a history over the longue dur?e, encompassing the wars of religion, Hobbes' Leviathan, revolution, great individuals, and popular movements, as well as innovations such as the nation-state and the party-form. Historically, the modern period is also a coming together of the categories of the political and the laws of political economy. At the heart of this book is Tronti's attempt to hold together a view of the course of political history with a critique of the \"dictatorship of the present\" to help us escape being \"chained to the bars of an eternal present . . . which deprives us both of the freedom to look back and to see ahead.\"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306876186997,"sku":"9781803093741","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803093741.jpg?v=1762802277","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781803093741","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}